The importance of Eilerts manuscript

Eilert's manuscript is, unlike the child Hedda is carrying, a WANTED possession, and therefore Hedda becomes a primitive woman when she burns the image of her enemy's possession. It is also the symbol of Eilert's superiority over george. Eilert's work is dynamic, and George's work is static. Once he loses the manuscript, which by this time has acquired an intense emotional value for he come to think of it, in fact, as a child. When the manuscript comes into Hedda's possession, she burns it; and when the Lovborg returns to her house, she encourages his thoughts of suicide - and puts into his hands one of her father's pistols